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000808353 1001_ $$aPinker, Steven,$$d1954-$$eauthor.
000808353 24510 $$aEnlightenment now :$$bthe case for reason, science, humanism, and progress /$$cSteven Pinker.
000808353 264_1 $$aNew York, New York :$$bViking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,$$c[2018]
000808353 300__ $$axix, 556 pages :$$billustrations, charts ;$$c25 cm
000808353 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
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000808353 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000808353 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 455-524) and index.
000808353 5050_ $$aDare to understand! -- Entro, evo, info -- Counter-enlightenments -- Progressophobia -- Life -- Health -- Sustenance -- Wealth -- Inequality -- The environment -- Peace -- Safety -- Terrorism -- Democracy -- Equal rights -- Knowledge -- Quality of life -- Happiness -- Existential threats -- The future of progress -- Reason -- Science -- Humanism.
000808353 520__ $$aIs the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data. In seventy-five graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature -- tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking -- which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. Pinker makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
000808353 650_0 $$aProgress.
000808353 650_0 $$aCivilization, Modern$$y21st century.
000808353 650_0 $$aEnlightenment.
000808353 650_0 $$aSocial change.
000808353 650_0 $$aQuality of life.
000808353 650_0 $$aHumanism.
000808353 650_0 $$aReason.
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